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See, she is tired to death, with the children all day and me all night, these many nights." "Tell her to go to bed in the other room," said Richard. "There's another room, isn't there? I'll sit with you." "You?" "Your wife is fagged out, that is plain. Send her to bed, and don't talk any more. Peters, I wish you'd run and get a piece of ice somewhere; there's no drinking-water here.
The girls work in the factories till they marry, after which they remain at home. The men are agriculturists, and some own fields and vineyards seven or eight miles away, to which they walk or go in carts. The village is dirty and not very picturesque. They get their drinking-water from the Kaiser Brunnen, a spring covered with a dome close to the sea, said to be a Roman erection.
He could have drawn a map of the Orinoco, but he could not have found the Trent in a day's march; he did not even know where his drinking-water came from. That geographical considerations are the cause of all history had never been hinted to him, nor that history bears immediately upon modern life and bore on his own life. For him history hung unsupported and unsupporting in the air.
Fire is white in its ultimate intensity. The top, spinning its fastest, is said to "sleep" and the dancing dervish is "still." So, misleading signs sometimes mark the danger-line. "Under-eating and over-thinking" was what the doctor said while he felt her translucent wrist and prescribed nails in her drinking-water.
He would follow the water-mains, creeping along streets, picking out and punishing a house here and a house there where they did not boil their drinking-water, creeping into the wells of the mineral water makers, getting washed into salad, and lying dormant in ices. He would wait ready to be drunk in the horse-troughs, and by unwary children in the public fountains.
We had a delightful and refreshing swim in this underground pool, but it was noticeable that, after we came out into the air, there was no evaporation of water from the body, and towels were absolutely necessary for drying. Such cenotes are found in many parts of Yucatan, and form the regular bathing-places, and are often the only natural supplies of drinking-water.
This trade can scarce be called an imposition; it has been so blown upon with exposures; it flaunts its fraudulence so nakedly. We pay them as we pay those who show us, in huge exaggeration, the monsters of our drinking-water; or those who daily predict the fall of Britain. We pay them for the pain they inflict, pay them, and wince, and hurry on.
As he did not speak at once, he was standing by the window with his hands behind him, she asked him his pleasure. 'Bring me some water, Mary, plain drinking-water. She returned with a jug and glass, and he took a long draught. 'No, don't go yet. I want to to talk to you about things. Sit down there for a minute. He pointed to the couch, and Mary, with an anxious look, obeyed him.
The left-hand wing was used as our stables and contained a well which enjoyed an immense local reputation in Mayfair. Never was such drinking-water!
The entire lack of transportation at first resulted in leaving most of the troop mess-kits on the beach, and we were never able to get them. The men cooked in the few utensils they could themselves carry. This rendered it impossible to boil the drinking-water. Closely allied to the lack of transportation was the lack of means to land supplies from the transports.
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